State v. Fuerte-Coria

Defendant, who was convicted of multiple crimes “arising out of a continuous and uninterrupted course of conduct,” ORS 137.123(4), appeals, raising two challenges to sentencing: (1) the trial court erred in imposing mandatory sentences for certain crimes pursuant to ORS 137.700(2)(a) (Ballot Measure 11 (1994)), because that statute is facially unconstitutional; and (2) the court’s imposition of consecutive sentences for certain offenses, pursuant to ORS 137.123(5)(a), 1 was unconstitutional under the reasoning of Blakely v. Washington, 542 US_, 124 S Ct 2531, 159 L Ed 2d 403 (2004). We reject…